Virginia · Nonprofit
LA COCINA VA
LA COCINA VA (Virginia) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,694,419 to it, the largest being CITI FOUNDATION ($500,000). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.1M
- Funders on record
- 48
- Grants received
- $3.7M
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What La Cocina Va does
Mission
To use food to generate workforce & economic development in minority communities through culinary arts, job readiness training, vocational instruction, life skills development, job placement, & safety certifications.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Training and workforce development: empowers low-income communities with job training and placement that results in a 90% job placement rate, a 39% average wage increase, and a 57% wage increase among women. In 2025, the total number of persons served by the culinary training program was 88.
$791,107 spent59% of program spendingSmall business incubator: supports low-income small food business entrepreneurs with technical training, capacity building, and access to the onsite shared kitchen space. In 2025, the total number of persons served by the small business incubator program was 21.
$215,570 spent16% of program spendingFood assist: provides our neighbors with healthy, nutritious meals designed to combat hunger and prevent and reduce obesity. In 2025, the total number of persons served by the food assistance program and the family meal program was 120 and 125, respectively, resulting in 245 total served.
$209,629 spent16% of program spendingCafe and catering operations
$123,472 spent$20,190 earned by the program9% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,339,778.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $2.5M to $4.0M (+59%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2018 2% · 2019 2% · 2020 9% · 2021 7% · 2022 13% · 2023 27% · 2024 32% · 2025 30%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of LA COCINA VA’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Brian Macnair
CEO
Board chair
Gigi Vita
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $67k → $338k.
15 of 48 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of LA COCINA VA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 48 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
LA COCINA VA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
48% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund LA COCINA VA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 64% · 2019 38% · 2020 22% · 2021 33% · 2022 37% · 2023 15% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
42% of LA COCINA VA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
LA COCINA VA draws 90% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 15 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
LA COCINA VA runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 605 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 605 food & nutrition nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like LA COCINA VA
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LA COCINA VA: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LA COCINA VA?
- LA COCINA VA (Virginia) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,694,419 to it, the largest being CITI FOUNDATION ($500,000). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LA COCINA VA have?
- IRS filings report 48 organizations giving $3,694,419 in grants to LA COCINA VA, 30 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LA COCINA VA?
- CITI FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LA COCINA VA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 48 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing